Mickey Hart Responds To Assault Allegation

By Andy Doerschuk

Published September 13, 2012

Mickey Hart has responded to the accusation that he assaulted a person at a Mickey Hart Band concert last week, telling TMZ, “I am totally baffled by a bizarre claim of assault by me coming out of Kentucky – the home of Bluegrass and a state I love dearly. Any accusation or claim of assault against me is completely false and without any basis whatsoever. I played drums on ’Shakedown Street,’ but I never expected to be ’The Victim Or The Crime.’”

Please see our original report below.

Yesterday the TMZ website reported that a warrant has been issued by Kentucky police for the arrest of Mickey Hart.

It alleges that the 69-year-old former Grateful Dead drummer assaulted someone during a Mickey Hart Band concert at Terrapin Hill Farm in Harrodsburg, Kentucky on September 8.

While further details are still forthcoming, it mentioned that the alleged victim filed a police report immediately following the incident.